Reporting for the Media
Canadian Edition
by John R. Bender; Michael W. Drager; Maxine Ruvinsky; Fred Fedler & Lucinda D. Davenport
This new Canadian edition is a comprehensive and confidence-boosting introduction to journalism. Helping students develop a solid journalistic skill set, it offers straightforward instruction on the basics - newswriting style, story structure, interviewing techniques, reporting on speeches andmeetings, common ethical dilemmas, grammar - and practical guidance on more advanced topics such as broadcast writing, Canadian law, and public relations. Lively end-of-chapter exercises encourage hands-on application of new skills. Checklists recapping main points, boxed features that highlightspecific topics, as well as suggested readings and useful websites support student learning. Accessible and engaging, the new Canadian edition of Reporting for the Media is an indispensable guide for journalists in training.
close this panelMaxine Ruvinsky is associate professor and chair of the School of Journalism at Thompson Rivers University. She is the author of two other Oxford University Press textbooks: Investigative Reporting in Canada, 2008, and Practical Grammar: A Canadian Writer's Resource, 2006 (second edition,2009).Charles Hays is assistant professor and internship coordinator at the School of Journalism at Thompson Rivers University.
close this panel"Written with clarity, authority, and an eye for the students who want to learn. . . and the journalism professors (read: former newspaper reporters) who may be struggling to teach what they have learned simply by doing in a deadline-oriented newsroom. This book offers a how-to guide forboth." --Kamal Al-Solaylee, School of Journalism, Ryerson University
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